Online based therapy
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Communication and assessment apps for use with children and young people – recording
This free webinar was organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group, and led by Dr. David Glasgow of Child and Family Training.
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Preventing Anxiety in the Children of Anxious Parents
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Fiona Challacombe discusses her co-authored CAMH journal paper ‘Preventing anxiety in the children of anxious parents – feasibility of a brief, online, group intervention for parents of one- to three-year-olds’.
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Long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of a therapist-supported online remote behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents: extended 12- and 18-month follow-up of a single-blind randomised controlled trial
Open Access paper from the JCPP- “Little is known about the long-term effectiveness of behavioural therapy for tics. We aimed to assess the long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of online therapist-supported exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy for tics 12 and 18 months after treatment initiation.” Chris Hollis (pic) et al.
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Technology Matters: Increasing access to evidence-based treatment for child anxiety problems: online parent-led CBT for children identified via schools
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal 2023 Special Issue – “Anxiety problems are extremely common and have an early age of onset. We previously found, in a study in England, that fewer than 3% of children with an anxiety disorder identified in the community had accessed an evidence-based treatment (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; CBT)”. Iheoma Green (pic) et al.
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Internet based intervention (Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents) as add-on to treatment as usual versus treatment as usual for non-suicidal self-injury in adolescent outpatients: The TEENS randomised feasibility trial
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “We assessed the feasibility of Internet based Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents (ERITA) in psychiatric outpatients aged 13–17 years who engaged in NSSI”. Britt Morthorst et al.
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Preventing anxiety in the children of anxious parents – feasibility of a brief, online, group intervention for parents of one- to three-year-olds
Participants were recruited through primary and secondary care psychological services and social media. Emily Palmer, Matt Woolgar, Ben Carter, Sam Cartwright-Hatton, Fiona L. Challacombe (pic)
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Internet-delivered therapist-assisted cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder (OSCA): a randomised controlled trial addressing preliminary efficacy and mechanisms of action
Open Access from the JCPP – “Forty-three youth (14–18 years) with SAD recruited through schools were randomly allocated to therapist-assisted Internet-delivered CT-SAD or waitlist for 14 week”. Eleanor Leigh (pic) and David M. Clark
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CAMHS services in our physically distanced world
On March 23rd 2020, the way healthcare was provided in England had to change overnight. With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the country, CAMHS staff had to adapt to the news that they must provide routine services from home where possible and all non-urgent face-to-face contact must cease to prevent the spread of the virus.
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Self-harm in a time of isolation: What is the evidence to support mobile and internet-based psychological interventions for self-harm?
In this blog we summarise the findings and implications of a recent systematic review of studies evaluating the effectiveness and acceptability of mobile- and internet-based psychological interventions for self-harm in adolescents and adults.
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BRAVE-ONLINE elicits a strong reduction in anxiety for most young people, irrespective of age, sex, type and severity of anxiety and parent mental health
In the wake of the current coronavirus pandemic, more practitioners are turning to online service delivery for children and adolescents in need of mental health support. The recent JCPP publication from Susan Spence and colleagues on internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (iCBT) for anxious children is thus particularly timely.
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